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I would like to create a rotation schedule that is only active on alternate weeks.

Week 1 : Person 1
Week 2 : Inactive
Week 3 : Person 2
Week 4 : Inactive

I can easily create gaps inside of a week using restrictions, so this would be easy to do:

1st Half of Week 1 : Person 1
2nd Half of Week 1: Inactive
1st Half of Week 2: Person 2
2nd Half of Week 2: Inactive

But I cant figure out Week On, Week Off. Is there a way other than restrictions I’m missing?

(I realize I could add a dummy account to fill in for the inactive weeks, I would prefer not to do that)

Hi ​@foragerr,

How are you doing today?

PagerDuty’s native scheduling features don’t currently support a true “week on, week off” rotation with inactive weeks (i.e., no one on call) without using a workaround. The most common workaround is to add a “dummy” or “nobody” user to the schedule for the inactive weeks. This “nobody” user would have no contact information or notification rules, so no one is actually paged during those weeks. However, this does use up a seat license, which is understandably not ideal for many teams.

You can see this example here in the forums where this workaround was used:
Schedule with Weekly Rotation and different time requirements for each week

I’ll try to check internally if we have any upcoming feature or enhancement that addresses this in the roadmap.

Hope this helps clarify things, even if it’s not the answer you were hoping for!

Thank you and have a nice day!

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